Topic: [Avalon ASIC] Batch #2 pre-Sale Thread - page 49. (Read 107712 times)

There is, though she doesn't get out much anymore.

If Yifu anyways has to take a plane to get back to NY to oversee the batch #2 pre-orders, he can just take a unit in his suitcase and show it to a relevant person in NY (surely there must be somebody of 'statue' in NY?).

The only way for Avalon to prove that they have a legit product is to delay Batch #2 Orders until proof that their ASIC unit actually reaches Jeff and he can confirm the unit actually hashes on the network.

I am not the only person that is skeptical of the fact that they are going to be taking payments for Batch #2 without having any proof.

It would be very wise of Avalon to delay Batch #2 orders until there is Proof, in light of the bASIC project failing.

Delaying Batch#2 a couple of days is not going to hurt anyone. Delaying would only show that Avalon is legit.

Wow!!!

You are all getting F'ed in the A.

LOL

Hehe, you mean he gets paid to continue his scam?

We are talking about Rico Suave right?

I also note on the last page there are two users trying to restart the fire, both with exceptionally low post counts and very long posts. Stinks of sock puppetry.

It sounds like they were trying to get cheapest transistor and ICs possible from local producers, this probably would mean that Radio Shack is expensive.

Yeah...lets get ma Hommiess glocks and go hitz thems radio shacks for thems (Caps + resitors)

If theyz givs us annnyys troubles..well put some (capz + resistors) in there arse....

This is so bad its so funny

Radio Shack and Fry's don't carry a decent selection of MOSFETs or inductors, and even if they did sending them to China would be like shipping coals to Newcastle - it's one of the few places where you can actually walk in and buy these kinds of parts.

Just for the lulz. Otherwise you have a point somewhere in there.


No, actually I'm betting it will be a financial competition. As it is always the case in commodified unregulated markets, he who knows best how to use MPEx options and futures wins.


Your point is valid but grossly misapplied, it seems to me. Ignoring or not ignoring wanna-be representatives of wanna-be producers of a technology that still lies squarely outside of both the intellectual and financial purview of this entire collected community is not at all akin or even vaguely comparable to "ignoring that one cool guy".

I'll bet you strippers to nerds or fine gourmet meals to pots of ramen that you're all currently ignoring the people who are actually making ASICs and who will dominate the ASIC market for years no questions asked simply because they can't be bothered to come to this forum and talk to you at all. I know this because experience teaches: it's what you did re MPEx a year/eternity ago.

I'm actually down to bust some Radioshacks - let's do this!

BitSyncom,

Thank you for your feedback. Following you post i understood that Lancelot customers will be able to upgrade to Avalon saving 399 USD. Please correct me if i am mistaken.

However flowing questions remained:

1. Will  Get Credit button be functional by tomorrow (http://launch.avalon-asics.com/#prices)?
2. Shall we have to pay full amount of  $1499/unit and get a refund equal to 399 USD when you receive our Lancelot unit?
3. Or we have to pay  $1499 - 399$ = 1100$ and you will ship our unit after receiving Lancelot board?

In general if you explain how the upgrade is going to happen with few sentences will be great.

Thank you very much in advance


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It always made more sense to me to simply buy Bitcoin vs. trying to mine competitively over a reasonable period of time.  The only argument that might change my mind at this point would be if Avalon ships a working product, nobody else does for some time, and Avalon keeps a pretty modest delivery schedule.  All big ifs, and even if it does turn out that way, it'll be pretty hard to get one's hands on the gear.  I don't think the risk is probably worth it unless the USD/BTC rate really skyrockets...and as always it would also work well to be sitting on a full wallet.dat in that case anyway.

The time to 'shift gears' would have been in early 2011, or during the 2011 crash despair.  For someone with balls, the ability to hit a jackpot may still exist at $20/BTC, but obviously not to the same degree as earlier.  Of course we may get another crash-like-thing, but if I were wishing to get in at the present time, I'd not wish to wait for it and risk being left behind.  I'd just dollar-cost average from here to get my possition I suppose.

My only interest in ASIC gear is to locate it strategically to capitalize on state sponsored interference (and support the Bitcoin network in such an eventuality) so I'll be interested both in proof of a working product and more importantly in a flexible and well documented product (aka, 'open'.)  Avalon hints that they have no interest in being any more open than they have to which leads me to believe that it'll be someone else who ultimately stirs my interest in mining enough to throw money at it.

So you think you have it all figured out by looking at my account name? Not that it matters but I know nothing about relational DB's. You are clearly making this a personal attack against me and all I am doing is posting an observation of the marketplace. If it makes you feel better about your investment that's cool although I don't know why you would be so worried what I have to say. I certainly would not speculate on what you do or your expertise by your username on forum. 

Again good luck on whatever you decide to do. Bitcoin is a hobby at best for me but perhaps it means the world to you. 

I can explain myself better: I realize that you are a professional relational database administrator, a kind of guy that always wears his pants with both belt and suspenders. The most daringest exploit it your business career was where you put the log files on the ramdisk and run "UPDATE TABLE" without "WHERE" clause and then kept doing "TRUNCATE LOG WITH NO_LOG" to avoid overfilling the ramdisk.

I'm not saying that it is anything wrong with the above.

But the humanity needs two kinds of mariners: (1) those who sail the seven seas and (2) ferry operators. You are the second kind. BitSyncom asked for orders from the first kind. Your areas of expertise don't overlap in any meaningful way.

I hope I'm clearer now.

> dbasql

It thinks for itself! 

I kinda agree with this sentiment. But why whine? Call BitSyncom, ask what MOSFETs and inductors he needs, raid the nearest RadioShack and Fry's and negotiate with him an exchange of components for finished product. If needed fly them himself to China in carry-in luggage. Arrange to get completed Avalons smuggled out of China through Vietnam or Mongolia. Even if you can't do any of the above, discuss the scheme with other users of this forum. Maybe someone will do it?

Otherwise you run the risk that your highest point of involvement in the Bitcoin experiment will be "I hit the Ignore button on one college educated know it all with not a single callus on his hands because he was disrespectfull to the new user with a reasonable post". Even your own grandchildren will snicker at that, they will prefer to listen to the stories of an antique wood dealer.

But please don't whine.

I once asked the very same question of some other fine gent on this site. His answer--master at multitasking (paraphrased).

In my country I heard on the news of a 82y old Lady making telephone scams, dude she had a better plan than you.
However I will ask one question:

You admit to having so many problems, so much work, yet you still find the time to post senseless comments every few hours in this thread.
How is that possible?

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